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Europe is spending more than America to help Ukraine.

Vietnam has historically been pretty brutal for invaders too. Between the end of the third Chinese domination and the start of the French colonial period, they went almost a thousand years rarely ever losing a war. They even fended the Mongols off

Yeah good call. I kinda forget he exists and then once every six months he pops up to deliver three hours of perfect storytelling

VaatiVidya (FromSoft game lore videos) and Voices of the Past (narration of primary historical sources) for sure.

Here's some behind-the-scenes about them https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7xe84b

It was manually puppeted most of the time rather than being animatronic, but obviously with all the things that TARS and CASE can do they had to build different props for each one

There has been recognition of a particularly useful application of Möbius strips for a long time: belts in machinery wear out slower if they're Möbius strips, because that way the contact with the shafts is split between both sides of the belt. The oldest example of this usage I know of is from a 13th century engineer in the region of modern-day Iraq and Syria

I have never felt more justified in being afraid of the ocean. I even used to be a keen kayaker

This is exactly it

My greatest ever achievement in the kitchen was that time I successfully cut a bagel into two interlocked rings like this

That makes sense. Not something to be taken too seriously, but a bit of fun engagement with the past in a space where it's not hurting anyone if the details are wonky

I'm not about to pick fights with good legislation over it not immediately solving the entire problem

They're people explicitly looking to dodge taxes by converting their accumulated wealth into an untaxable asset. So you're not seeing small farmers shielded from consolidation thanks to inheritance taxes. You're seeing celebrities and mega-millionaires shielding cash assets behind an accounting trick.

This is exactly what the policy is aiming to address. Even if it doesn't fix the consolidation of farmland by big companies, I don't see how addressing this loophole is a bad thing, especially when you describe the drawback to it as having already happened anyway

Isn't it just a regular shallow depth of field? You can see the piece of paper smoothly transition towards being in focus

Beetroot is great when winter comes round. It fits so well in those hearty roasted dishes

try some old recipes

What do you think of Max Miller's youtube channel?

One of the mustard plants is actually a close relative of the broccoli/cabbage/cauliflower/the rest of that set, and it gets used as a vegetable (as opposed to just the seeds being made into a condiment) in a fair few places

...I don't think that's actually what they meant, but it's possible!

Oooh that's cool, thank you for sharing

And literally meaning "bear service", I think? That's hilarious. The most formidable beast of the wilds of Europe, simply a bumbling little guy always making things worse when they try to help

Vinland is Newfoundland, I'm afraid! It's not generally thought that the Norse made it as far south in the Americas as the modern day contiguous USA

Fake-eating an electrical plug. The plug was both not connected to any power - I was "eating" the end that goes into the wall - and also never even close to actually being in my mouth, but the teacher was apparently at just the right angle for it to look convincing and freaked enough that he decided to call my parents and give me lines

Europe is already doing more than America. But my proposal is that maybe we don't extort the Ukrainians into oblivion